CountEgo

Simple example web application written in Elixir/Phoenix which allows user to create live updating counters for public Facebook pages.

• MongoDB as database via Mongo.Ecto
• Custom simple authentication module
• Two different layouts (public and admin)
• Custom rails-style helpers for the admin UI
• Client-side dependencies (javascripts, styles) managed via NPM
• Brunch configured to integrate SCSS, jQuery, 3rd party jQuery plugin and to build separate bundles for public and for admin UI
• Special action (FrontController.counter) that handles both HTML and JSON requests (similar to what rails app achieves with the respond_to method)
• Module that fetches data from external API (Facebook)

Do you see something strange/wrong/unidiomatic? That's entirely possible (I'm just beginning with Elixir/Phoenix)! Please let me know in a comment and I'll be super happy to fix/improve it.

To start your Phoenix app:

• Run the install script: bin/setup.sh
• Or:
  • Create the config/dev.secret.exs file and fill in the admin user email and password
  • Install dependencies with mix deps.get
  • Install Node.js dependencies with npm install
  • Seed the database with mix run priv/repo/seeds.exs
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phoenix.server
• Log in to the Admin UI at localhost:4000/login and create your first counter by entering PageID of a public FB page.